Drew Griffin, CNN's award-winning Senior Investigative Correspondent, known for getting even the cagiest of interview subjects to engage in a story, died Saturday after a long battle with cancer, his family said. He was 60.
Drew Griffin, CNN's award-winning Senior Investigative Correspondent, known for getting even the cagiest of interview subjects to engage in a story, died Saturday after a long battle with cancer, his family said. He was 60.
Drew Griffin, CNN's award-winning Senior Investigative Correspondent, died Saturday after a long battle with cancer, his family said. He was 60.Griffin worked on hundreds of stories and multiple documentaries over the course of nearly two decades on CNN's investigative team. His reporting had been honored with some ofjournalism's most prestigious awards -- Emmys, Peabodys, and Murrows among them.Griffin had an incredibly strong work ethic, colleagues said.
Amid his reporting into the high number of sexual assaults allegations against Uber drivers, the company changed its background check process and introduced new safety features in its app. Following the CNN investigation, Uber announced it would do away with a policy that previously forced individuals with sexual assault complaints into arbitration and made them sign non-disclosure agreements.
Griffin's tenacious approach toward the most challenging stories and his ability to get some of the most reluctant public figures to open up and give their side of the story underscored his sense of fairness. Still, he never missed an opportunity to grill them with tough questions. There were times, though, when Griffin, like all reporters, could not get his subjects to talk right away -- resulting in memorable on-camera confrontations with government officials, in particular.
While investigative journalism was at the heart of Griffin's work, he often jumped into breaking news coverage -- from mass shootings to devastating hurricanes. Among his more memorable on-air moments was during Hurricane Harvey in 2017, when he rescued a man by pulling him from a sinking pickup truck.
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